DAY ONE: Selected Poems

get in on this.who hasn’t?I’m asleep and in on it.dad is on a tablewithout a chest.it is open instead.I don’t really know that but it has to be dad on the tablethe doctor holding a paring knife.he is ready to rumble.what does he think dads are replaceable seasonal like pears or peachesbut no one is about to tell him the knife is wrong.every surgery he’s ever had happens at the same time.like the eyeball one. I don’t like to think about itbut I liked the emails he sent after “very ard to tpe his way. yoiur old da wll get bettre.”then heart blockage removal surgerywhich is a surgery they do so you are ready for more of them later or so you are ready.and the oral ones. the gold-looking tooth from the military days he prayed for the dead and his tooth rotted.oops he says about it.he is going to diebut not right now.and me too honestly.who hasn’t.you have to get in on thisGod says to everybody at the beginningand no one is about to tell Him the knife is wrong

Mac Maclean is a poet and senior at Oberlin College. They co-host a queer radio hour and are eagerly waiting for the radio to make its Big Comeback! People can tune in on Fridays at 1pm on WOBC.org/listen and check their face @hell.evator on Instagram.